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Have you ever felt like there would be no tomorrow? Or that life is as bad as it can get. There are too many bills to pay and not enough money. You may have sicknesses and diseases that you can’t get healed from and life is just too weary to go on another day. You will be encouraged from God’s word to look up and find hope in this three week series on Lamentations by Discipleship Pastor Jesse Hicks. No matter how bad it may seem, God is still on the throne and His mercies are new every morning.

Bewildered and confused, they saw, but they did not understand. After all, they were there when he was killed. They watched as his body was carried away to the tomb. With their leader dead and buried, none of them expected anything good to happen on that Sunday. But on that third day, something happened. They discovered an empty tomb, and it is still empty to this day.

Some people grew up with the Bible, their values have been shaped in some way by the principles in it, it’s impacted the way they do things, it determines what makes them feel guilty and what makes them feel good. But they’ve never really read it. We will discover in this message that we would read the Bible more if we understood its purpose and its contents.

The temple is a mess and Joash, being a good King, tells the Levites, “Let's spruce the temple up. Let's put it back in order as it should be so that we can use it for worshiping.” They don't do it. So, he creates a chest and then the people from all over the country come and they deliver things that get put in the chest of Joash. And by doing this they're able to restore the temple to where it should be so that they could worship in it.

Praying scripture is simply taking a passage, verse, or concept in scripture and using it for specific prayers for your life or community. Instead of forming a prayer from your own heart and mind, you can pray what's already written in the Word.

What’s different about people who stay married for better or worse? What is their secret . . . their magic formula? They’ve learned what to place in the space between expectations and reality. To wrap up this series, we’ll find a secret from a part of the familiar Scripture passage, 1 Corinthians 13.

It’s never been easier to fall in love and never been harder to stay in love. Is it even possible for two people to be happy together forever no matter what happens? Yes. Over 2,000 years ago, Jesus gave us the foundation for enduring love. In this message, we will uncover a simple, yet powerful, principle.